Word: thunderbird
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...Earth. If you would prefer a little color in your life, try the exhibit of English embroidery and be thankful you weren't female in the seventeenth century. The stuff is beautiful, but...Also, I have been told by the usual reliable sources to beware of the Tlingit Thunderbird. He bites...
...FIRST SIGN of something different going on at the Museum of Fine Arts hits you when you walk in the door. At the top of the grand staircase, blocking out the gold leaf, the Sargent murals and the classical columns, looms a 15-foot, glaring, carved wooden Thunderbird...
...Tlingit art was infiltrated by white gold-seekers. That glaring Thunderbird and his ilk must have scared a good number of interloping foreigners back to safety and Seattle. But that glorious beast has been toned down enough by the 19th century classicism of the MFA rotunda to loose this power. On the whole, it's a good thing. People should not be scared away from this show...
...reputation as the brightest of the ascending golf stars. Johnny looked the role, a lean (6 ft. 2½ in., 170 lbs.) golden boy with long corn-silk locks. He had a pretty wife and two handsome children. He sported a flashy wardrobe, drove a Ford Thunderbird and started golf camps in Utah and Scotland. His golf swing was solid-"the best on the tour," said Jack Nicklaus...
...Ralph Lombardi, 49, arrived in Viet Nam in 1962 as a securities salesman, leaving behind a wife, a Thunderbird and a town house in Brooklyn Heights. "When I came here," he says, "I had high blood pressure and ulcers -after the first year, both problems had vanished." Lombardi never got around to selling stocks. Instead, he played piano in a Saigon hotel for 18 months at $900 a month: when the American presence was at its highest levels, a polished entertainer like Lombardi was very much in demand. Today he ekes out a meager living by teaching at the University...